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... good-bye to his pleasant little country palace and the people who recognised what a good German he had always been. To the Whig Princes of England he was indispensable. They were ashamed of him, and cham pioned him with their left hands when the Tories ...
... these be pronouncedly Whig or Tory, compared with whose settled and unquestioning one-sidedness twentieth-century partisanship seems frothy and tame. On the whole, largely owing to the Holland House tradition and its literature, the Whig dogs have the best ...
... Old Whigs. He believed in the benevolent despot, and when he failed to find him he had no other resource. The great reformers of the last, decade or so, Chang-Chih-Tung, Yuan- Shi- Kai, and even Kang-Yu-Wei, have all been of this essentiall}' Whig school ...
... Rugby. LIEUT. R. F. BURTON Suffolks k. June 17 aged 20 born at Montreal educated at Sandhurst; gazetted 1915. FI.Sub.-Lt. R.S.WHIG HAM R.N.A.S. drowned on active service, May 9, His parents live in Argentina. 2nd Lt. H. W. HARRISON Lincolnshire Regt, gazetted ...
... so long as they could exercise a general control over him, rather than encourage Disraeli's plans for getting rid of the Whigs. As for the reluctant submission of the Tory aristocracy to his authority, it is truly represented in the character of the ...
... rout it with its own weapons. At his accession the country was governed by two hundred noblemen and gentlemen representing the Whig families. The influence and irresistible power of these families of the revolution had been upheld by promiscuous corruption ...
... passenger who preferred the upper middle-class compartment. But the Zeitgeist will permit no intermediate, no buffer community. The Whig is fast disappearing from the railway, as he has disappeared from politics. Erneat Brook a and Reginald Silk. Ready for the ...
... have produced a masterly adaptation of the German method to Isuit our national require ments. But Tullochgorum's desire that Whig and Tory a' agree is not yet fulfilled, for Lord Lansdowne's measure, like Mr. Asquith's speech at Manchester on Saturday, ...
... have heard so much, is in point' of fact not quite so bad as it was in the halcyon days of 1855-68. Then, the dishing of the Whigs was the great game of party politics, and when Disraeli succeeded he described his feat with characteristic aloofness as climbing ...
... . But from the so-called pre cedents of 1711 and 1S32 we get little assistance. In the former year we learn that the small Whig majority in the House of Lords was converted into a minority by the creation of twelve Tory peers, for the specific purpose ...
... with which they are almost exclusively concerned compete in point of general interest with the previous volumes. The steady Whig statesman is not so interesting as the friend of Byron: the early Victorian period is not redeemed by Holland House from being ...
... This portrait was taken by Mr. Haines. JOHN SMITH. SPEAKER 1705 AND 1707 He belonged to a respectable Hampshire family, was Whig member for Andover; Chancellor of the Exchequer 1708-10 died 1723. ARTHUR ONSLOW, SPEAKER 1727-8, 1734-5. 1741, 1747, 1/54-61 ...